Starting Points: Shackleton's Journey UPDATED
Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on Shackleton’s Journey by William Grill you’ll find ideas to support spoken language, reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary and spelling. This Starting Points resource will give you everything you need to plan a beautiful book-based unit of work for children in Year 5 and Year 6.
In additional to extensive ideas to support reading, this set of Starting Points also includes suggestions to teach the following grammar objectives:
Passive voice including the agentless passive
Indicating degrees of possibility using modal verbs and adverbs of possibility
Use of dashes to mark the boundary between independent clauses
How hyphens can be used to avoid ambiguity
Use of cohesive devices such as repetition of a word or phrase and the effective use of nouns and pronouns
The use of adverbials to build cohesion within paragraphs
The use of the perfect form of verbs
Brackets used for parenthesis
The use of expanded noun phrases to add detail
The use of relative clauses to add further information
The use of adverbials (including fronted adverbials)
The following resources are included in this pack:
Adverbials sorting table
Cut out theme tokens
Passive and agentless passive teaching slides
Role on the Wall sheet
Y5 and Y6 Statutory words
Starting Points are sets of book-based planning ideas. The books are not included in the packs.
Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on Shackleton’s Journey by William Grill you’ll find ideas to support spoken language, reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary and spelling. This Starting Points resource will give you everything you need to plan a beautiful book-based unit of work for children in Year 5 and Year 6.
In additional to extensive ideas to support reading, this set of Starting Points also includes suggestions to teach the following grammar objectives:
Passive voice including the agentless passive
Indicating degrees of possibility using modal verbs and adverbs of possibility
Use of dashes to mark the boundary between independent clauses
How hyphens can be used to avoid ambiguity
Use of cohesive devices such as repetition of a word or phrase and the effective use of nouns and pronouns
The use of adverbials to build cohesion within paragraphs
The use of the perfect form of verbs
Brackets used for parenthesis
The use of expanded noun phrases to add detail
The use of relative clauses to add further information
The use of adverbials (including fronted adverbials)
The following resources are included in this pack:
Adverbials sorting table
Cut out theme tokens
Passive and agentless passive teaching slides
Role on the Wall sheet
Y5 and Y6 Statutory words
Starting Points are sets of book-based planning ideas. The books are not included in the packs.
Starting Points are written to help you plan book-based units of work. In this set based on Shackleton’s Journey by William Grill you’ll find ideas to support spoken language, reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary and spelling. This Starting Points resource will give you everything you need to plan a beautiful book-based unit of work for children in Year 5 and Year 6.
In additional to extensive ideas to support reading, this set of Starting Points also includes suggestions to teach the following grammar objectives:
Passive voice including the agentless passive
Indicating degrees of possibility using modal verbs and adverbs of possibility
Use of dashes to mark the boundary between independent clauses
How hyphens can be used to avoid ambiguity
Use of cohesive devices such as repetition of a word or phrase and the effective use of nouns and pronouns
The use of adverbials to build cohesion within paragraphs
The use of the perfect form of verbs
Brackets used for parenthesis
The use of expanded noun phrases to add detail
The use of relative clauses to add further information
The use of adverbials (including fronted adverbials)
The following resources are included in this pack:
Adverbials sorting table
Cut out theme tokens
Passive and agentless passive teaching slides
Role on the Wall sheet
Y5 and Y6 Statutory words
Starting Points are sets of book-based planning ideas. The books are not included in the packs.
